So something very strange has happened. I’ve been nominated for The Versatile Blogger award which, subsequently, means I’ve won it. I now envisage your expression. It depicts the emotion of complete lack of understanding, mixed with the feeling of when you have trapped wind. Similar to being informed that if you jumped off St Paul’s Cathedral you would fall up into the solid orange ocean. Exactly.
But nominated I have been, and very touched I am too (even if it does turn out to be an awkward misunderstanding) and it is all thanks to the genius blog that is Short and Fun. Now I do not want you to think that just because of the obvious insanity that led this blog’s author to nominate me for this award that the blog is nothing short of awesome. That is not what I want you to think for this blog really is great fun to read. I am a picky one, and can get extremely bored with blogs but if there is a blog who deserves this award it is this one, and I strongly urge you to check it out.
Now one could hope that one could jovially accept this award and waddle off into the cyberspace distance without a care in the world. One’s hope would not be a wise one. It is in fact protocol to do a couple of things so as this wonderful award may continue to bring inspiring and exciting blogs to our attention and keep them flying through wordpress.
By far one of my favourite blogs out there. And extremely versatile. Love the animal drawings and the posts whether long or short will ensnare you as they have done me. Based in Ireland: what more could you want?
A new one to wordpress but definitely one worthy of a mention. Wonderfully written and both witty and thought provoking as well as heart warming.
A nice and unique idea and one that I have had much fun keeping up to date with. As long as you can deal with the knowledge that you’ll probably never find out who the band is, then you’ll love it.
Great wit displayed in this, makes me laugh every time I read it, and nicely regular posts!
5. Nightly Sky
Really impressive stuff here, emotive and awe inspiring. Definitely one to watch.
So talented and extremely varied. The way this blog is set out also makes me cringe when I look at the decor of my own and the time I spend on my posts!
Really mesmerising stuff on here, used to be some great thoughts put down too, hope we see some more of them resurfacing.
This stuff will leave you thinking for hours, but not in an unpleasant way. So much different elements that can be drawn from it.
This is one I came across from my nominator’s page a month or so ago and am really enjoying what I read. I don’t find many that when I find them, I look back through all of their archives regularly, but this is one of them.
10. oohgioia
I’ve only recently been reading Heather’s blog but it’s definitely becoming a memorable one. I love blogs on life and its ways and this one gives me what I want!
Literally the coolest doodles around that should definitely be somewhere where every one can enjoy them. Replacing the Apple logo or something.
12. squarerootofzero
Again, such cool cartoons. So weird yet I’ve been checking this blog constantly for new posts.
13. Southern Musings
Really accessible and enjoyable poetry. Anyone who enjoys reading poetry or is attempting (badly in my case) to write it, would be well advised to check it out.
14. Reclusewritings
Brian Looney has talent that I’ve never seen before. Can’t get enough from his page, I haven’t come across anything I don’t like yet, despite only following it for a week or two.
15. Zooky World
I love cartoons, and similar to some of the others I’ve mentioned on here, these have great cartoons, scribbles, poems and thoughts. A real pleasure to peruse.
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OK, so now those well deserved bloggers have been cordially acknowledged, I apparently now am required to divulge seven facts about myself. I’m rather uninteresting but I’ll give it a whirl!
1. I have a innate and bizarre abhorrence of cotton wool. The stuff literally makes me want to kill myself and everyone around me.
2. I once cut the whole forefront of my little finger off in a glass panel of a door. It wasn’t much fun to be honest.
3. I did a pier to pier swim in the sea for the British Heart Foundation once, and fell over when I got out of the water due to my legs having not been used for walking for a while.
4. I have been diagnosed with different mental conditions, the most amusing being one that causes me to have absolutely zero spacial awareness and hand eye coordination. Guess that’s why I can juggle with numerous clubs (and most other things) and play the drums. Nice one ‘specialist’.
5. I can play the William Tell Overture on my adam’s apple.
6. I had a black labarador called Dylan that I loved a stupid amount who died of Septicemia when he was 4 years old.
7. I have never had chicken pox.
Thanks for reading and sorry for rambling!
Thank you so much for the award! And of course reading my post, can’t wait for tomorrow at work to read more on your page and on the pages of those you have nominated as well.
Congrats!
Thanks for the award! hehe. Blob should get one though too, blobsdrawings.wordpress.com
he’s a bloggin’ fool
-Y
Thanks for the nod. I appreciate it! 🙂 Sorry to hear about your wool aversion.
I must say, praise feels darn good. Better than chocolate. And I’m not humbled one bit. Nope. Now for me to jovially jump off a turret as I capture wind and land into a solid orange pool. Will be the highlight of my January.
Oh gee whiz *blush* I have to admit I have gotten less versatile of late, though – I have a job for the first time in almost two years! Being back in an office will either suck all creativity out of me, or make me so desperate to get out that I’ll become fabulously brilliant 🙂 Thank you!
Dormouse:
Well-deserved, I’d say. I hope there’s some cash attached to the honor? Keep up the good work, boyo. I still follow you but the holidays kept me jumping. Didn’t have time to check in or comment. You keep getting better and better at what you do.
Yer fan in sunny SoCal..where it’s 82 degrees (F) right now…
-Mikey S.
If only, the cash would certainly come in handy right about now!
Congratulations on getting the Versatile award and thank you so much for nominating me! It honours me a lot that you like my work. I’ll try to keep you entertained 🙂 A post thanking you will be published on my site in a few days!
Congrtulations 🙂
I feel like I’m a bit late on this, but congratulations! As I’ve said before, your writing is amazing! You’re an inspiration. 🙂
Thank you, by the way. This post is really making me want to keep writing! I’m very flattered. Oh, and I smiled reading those fun facts. Playing the William Tell Overture on your adam’s apple sounds like a good party trick!
I am fully convinced that its not me that is weird, it is just everyone else. Oh, well. I DO draw cool cartoons. THANKS!
Thank you yet again! I have written about it here: